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Later today, at 10am, I will be at the conference at which about twenty One
Nation Federal Candidates will be briefed on One Nation's tax policy.
Media misreporting:
Today News Limited's Sunday Mail blew up a story alleging that
one of the One Nation MPs Jack Paff, Member for Ipswich West, had made a
lewd comment to a Press Gallery reporter.
Here is the article by Chris Griffiths:
One Nation MP Jack Paff has been accused of making
a lewd comment about a female journalist.
Australian Associated Press reporter Sam Strutt said
Mr Paff, a former police officer and state MP for Ipswich, told someone to
convey a lewd suggestion on Thursday night at Parliament House in
Brisbane.
Yesterday, Mr Paff did not reply to repeated requests
for a comment. But One Nation state leader Bill Feldman said that there was
no need for Mr Paff to apologise because he had denied he made the
comment.
"What she (Ms Strutt) told you is vastly different
from what happened," he said.
Ms Strutt said she and other women were returning from
an annual dinner with female MPs when they encountered Mr Paff and fellow
One Nation MP Chareles Rappolt in the corridors of the Parliamentary annexe
about 9.30pm (the night I was working with Ken Turner on the Internet).
She said Mr Paff called over one of the women and asked
her to relay a remark to Ms Strutt.
However she did not hear Mr Paff make the comment
directly.
The intermediary, who declined to be named (Ms
Beavan), yesterday confirmed Mr Paff made the comment.
Ms Strutt said, "In your place of work you shouldn't
have to pur up with this sort of thing."
Press Gallery president Mike D'Arcy said he had contacted
Bill Feldman about the comment, but the press gallery also could formally
complain to Speaker Ray Hollis if Ms Strutt wished.
"I think he should do the right thing and apologise
to Strutt," (D'Arcy said.)
Mr Feldman said Mr Paff had given "a different version
of events".
Here is Jack Paff's statement to me on the debacle:
Charlie Rappolt and I were sitting in the Lucinda bar having a beer. We left,
walked out through the foyer of the Lucinda Bar to go and make phone calls
on the ninth floor offices. We walked along the concrete verandah on the
fifth floor - as we got to the large double glass doors that go to the lift
four women came laughing and giggling through the doors nearly colliding
with us. One of the women was Debbie Beavan (One Nation's media adviser).
Ms Beavan stopped and said "We have been on secret women's business" and
I replied "We have been on secret men's business" in a return joking
comment.
I kept walking while Charles stopped and began talking to Ms Beavan. Then
I stopped about 15 feet away because I was waiting for Charles when I heard
Beavan say to Charles "Where are you going". I replied "We are going
to be up all night".
Beavan said, "What did you say?" with a surprised look as if she took the
connotation of something else.
Charles said, "We are going to be here all night (because of the Parliamentary
sitting)".
I turned to walk away. I saw the other three women in the foyer of the Lucinda
Annex about 40 metres away about to go up the lifts.
Ms Beavan laughed and then left to join the others. We went up to our offices
to make phone calls.
The first thing I knew about anything was when Bill Feldman said, "Jack where
have you fellas been. What has happened with the reporters?"
I did not know what he was talking about and then he explained that some
reporter had made a complaint to him through the grapevine about Paff allegedly
saying something about "being up someone".
I was at a loss about what Bill was talking about. I said to Bill "Who is
Sam?" thinking it was a man and Bill said, "No Sam is a woman." I replied
"I don't know what you are talking about Bill."
At about 2am on Friday morning at the sitting of the Parliament Mr Brian
Davidson a National MP came over and said to me "Did you make some remarks
about a reporter". I replied that I did not know what was happening but the
only thing I could fill him in on was the incident or the chance meeting
with Debbie Beavan at the glass doors on the fifth floor.
I do not know Sam Strutt.
Labor and Coalition in dissaray in Queensland
The Labor Member, who was headmaster on the Beaudesert State High School
in 1970 has been accused of being involved in child-sex allegations. Amongst
the allegations are claims that he fathered a child to a fourteen year old
and that girls as young as eleven were involved. (I cannot name him for legal
reasons).
The crucial vote of Independent Peter Wellington which delivered Labor minority
government power in Queensland (after One Nation took an astounding eleven
seats) has called for the MP to stand aside.
The MPs seat was one where One Nation performed extremely well - coming second
well before the Coalition with nearly 30% of the primary vote.
Meanwhile politically correct lawyer Terry O'Gorman who is normally associated
with civil rights issues but will represent the MP said the allegations were
"outrageous".
He said he would lodge a "forceful complaint" with the CJC about the leaking
of the police investigation details.
"My client forcefully and indignantly denies and sexual wrongdoings and rejects
outright and out of hand the allegations," O'Gorman said.
How easy is it to rig the share market?
Here is an extract
from the New York Post article:
Probably not. The better bet is that a bunch of hedge
funds with their necks out this far because of investments in Russia and
around the globe decided that they couldn't afford to sustain additional
losses in their U.S. stock portfolio.
So they did what any other panicked investor with
a few billion dollars on hand would do - they bought a thousand Standard
& Poor's 500 futures contracts and turned Wall Street around.
With these new-fangled securities it really is that
easy. So why hasn't Washington thought of it?
Glad you asked. Actually, a guy named Robert Heller
once proposed just that - rigging the stock market in times of
emergency.
A very good reason to reject the GST - the IMF support
it
A goods and services tax would boost Australia's exports, investment and
economic efficiency, the managing director of the International Monetary
Fund, Mr Michel Camdessus, said yesterday.
On a rare visit to Australia, Mr Camdessus gave an unqualified endorsement
to the Howard Government's position on some of the most controversial issues
in Australian politics, including the introduction of a GST and plans to
further deregulate the labor market.
"Tax reform must address the problems of a narrow and eroding tax base for
indirect taxes and the relatively high income tax rates on middle income
earners", Mr Camdessus wrote in a keynote speech to the inaugural Australia
Unlimited round table.
"Priority should be given to broadening the tax base, including by introducing
a VAT-type tax on goods and services, and lowering marginal tax rates." (A
VAT or value-added tax is also a GST.)
Having run seriously over time, Mr Camdessus omitted these words when delivering
his speech in the Great Hall of the National Gallery, but expanded on them
later at a press conference.
"Taxes are bad in general, like medicine. But among the bad taxes, a VAT
is certainly one of the best," he said.
"It is producer-friendly. It taxes all the elements in the chain of production
in an equitable way. It allows governments to remove tax on exports and
investment.
"In Australia you have a fiscal system which is somewhat imbalanced, because
income taxes are in average at the very high rate, 45 per cent, while (services)
are not taxed. We believe it would be a good thing for Australia to go to
a VAT."
Mr Camdessus also endorsed the Government's Budget cuts, its reforms to financial
regulation, the Charter of Budget Honesty, and its plans to further reduce
the role of the Industrial Relations Commission and industrial awards.
Who Robbed Russia -- and Us?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Last June, in a piece titled “Let Russia
Default,” this writer noted the obvious. Awash in debts, running
a huge deficit, Russia should be allowed to default; and not one more U.S.
tax dollar should be put at risk by the IMF trying to hide Russia’s
bankruptcy.
Russia’s chief financial officer, Venianin Sokolov
was quoted in that column as conceding that all the IMF billions pumped into
his country had been lost, wasted, or stolen “at the highest levels”
of what he called an “entirely corrupt regime.”
Yet the IMF handed Russia another $4.8 billion in July.
What happened to it? According to Sergei Dubinin, Russian central bank governor,
every last dime of that $4.8 billion was spent propping up the Russian ruble,
which Moscow, last week, cut loose and let fall.
Within days, the ruble fell 30% against the dollar,
40% against the German mark. Again, Russia’s people have been robbed.
Again, U.S. taxpayers will have to make good idiot loans of the IMF.
Friends, this is coming close to indictable criminal
fraud.
Yet, according to the Financial Times of August 20,
“the IMF is expected to disburse the second tranche of its $11.2 billion
loan in September to replenish the central banks reserves and control the
slide in the ruble.” If Congress allows this loan to go forward, and
shovels out the $18 billion demanded by Clinton for the IMF, it must be
considered a moral accomplice to the looting of America.
Russia has now admitted it cannot pay its foreign debts,
and demanded that short-term bond holders accept long-term paper at 30% of
face value. Panicked investors are fleeing Russia and every Third World market.
Stocks are plummeting and billions of dollars of equity are being wiped out
daily. Since mid-July, the U.S. market has probably given up a trillion dollars
in value.
Who is responsible for the global disaster that began
in Asia? Last week, on CNN’s “Moneyline,” Nobel Prize-winning
economist Milton Friedman, nailed the villain. Said Dr. Friedman, the IMF
“is largely responsible for the Asian crisis.”
Instead of letting Mexico default in 1994, and Goldman
Sachs takes its hit, the IMF rushed in to bail out Mexico City and its New
York creditors. That bailout sent a message: The risks of investing billions
in emerging markets are minimal. Huge sums poured into these markets. It
is those investments that, today, are being wiped out. To stanch the
blood-letting, the IMF, since last summer, has put taxpayers at risk for
$130 billion in loans to Asia and Russia, most of which we will never see
again.
Yet, as Friedman says, it is not the Mexican people,
or Russian people, or Thai people, who are aided by the IMF. “We speak
about the IMF bailing out...Thailand; the IMF isn’t bailing out Thailand.
It isn’t bailing out the poor people in Thailand now suffering from
the recession they’re in. It’s bailing out the bankers in New York
and in London, and Berlin who made loans to Thailand.” Exactly.
It is time for a Congressional investigation that might
well be titled: Who Lost Russia? Its focus should be on who got -- and who
stole -- the scores of billions of dollars in Western loans sunk into Russia
since 1991, because it surely was not the people of Russia who are destitute
and far worse off than in 1991.
According to the Nation magazine (“The Harvard
Boys Do Russia”) Russia’s disaster is the work of three elements.
First are the so-called “reformers” like Anatoly Chubais whom the
New York Times says “may be the most despised man in Russia.” Second
is Harvard’s Institute for International Development which Clinton’s
men put in charge of U.S. aid to Russia. Third is the U.S. Treasury.
The “privatization drive that was supposed to
reap the fruits of the free market,” writes Janine Wedel in Nation,
“helped to create a system of tycoon capitalism run for the benefit
of a corrupt political oligarchy that has appropriated hundreds of millions
of dollars of Western aid and Russia’s wealth.”
Moscow’s mayor recently “singled out Harvard
for the harm inflicted on the economy by its advisers who encouraged
Chubais’ misguided approach to privatization and monetarism.”
In 1991 Russia was pro-American and on the road to
freedom. Today, this nation, with thousands of nuclear weapons, is a basket
case seething with anti-Americanism and ripe for an explosion.
Meanwhile, Russia’s tycoon capitalists romp on
the Riviera; and the geniuses at Harvard, Treasury and the IMF who presided
over this debacle have never been called to account. This must be done; but
first let’s take Friedman’s advice -- and abolish the IMF.
Barbara Hazelton's folly exposed
Extract
from the article
Ms Hazelton, a former close friend and confidante to
Ms Hanson, will seek an injunction in the Queensland Supreme Court on Monday
to immediately prevent the funds being released to One Nation, claiming the
party was never properly registered.
A new trust, which Mr Abbott has helped to establish,
called Australians for Honest Politics, will totally indemnify Ms Hazelton
against costs in the action. Two other prominent Australian political
figures will sit with Mr Abbott on the trust. Mr Abbott told the Herald last
night that the trust was not a Liberal Party organisation and no Liberal
Party money was involved.
Information that I have received suggests that the master of tax avoidance
in Australia, Mark Liebler, and the man behind the disgusting joke of a magazine,
the Australia/Israel Review, is a linchpin behind the trust.
(See extract from article in Australia/Review on "assimilation"
below.)
Now why would big business want to sink One Nation - maybe they will have
to be accountable for once?
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Subject:
Debits Tax - Scotts
Con..
Ah Scott, you rotter! Actually, I half suspected that's
what your Debits Tax post was all about!!!
Trevor Lima
Subject: One Nation in NZ
The NZ press is very upset with me and at present.
there is a news boycott on me and One Nation.
Any help and recognition would be appreciated by me
on your right flank.
Paul B Telfer, NZ
Subject:
MUTICULTURALISM OR ASSIMILATION
?
Scott,
Was interested to read this essay on Israels immigration
policy from the AUSTRALIA / ISRAEL REVUE, part of which is as follows.
Another perspective on Australia's immigration program
is revealed through a comparison with Israel. Like Australia, Israel's
development as a modern state is inextricably linked to immigration. Its
importance is reflected in the Law of Return and the organisations (particularly
the Jewish Agency) which promote the ingathering of Jews from all over the
world to settle in Israel, assist in their absorption and ensure that the
program benefits both the immigrants and national development
objectives.
Due to the exceptionally high numbers of arrivals from
the former Soviet Union since 1989, most immigrants are given a lump sum
- an absorption package - upon arrival in Israel and, with assistance from
government agencies, find these funds sufficient to initially establish
themselves. Within a few years, due to their high percentage of scientific,
technical and other professionals, many have become very successful. The
more traditional point of entry is now largely confined to arrivals from
Ethiopia, a typical example of which is Beit Canada Absorption Centre in
Jerusalem. With a capacity of 250, it provides accommodation for singles
and families for up to one year while they find permanent housing and employment.
School classes are held every morning, five days a week, with an emphasis
on learning Hebrew and about Israeli institutions. Social and cultural activities
are organised for the afternoons and evenings, including occasional excursions
to other parts of Israel. A "Job Club" offers employment assistance, including
help in preparing resumes and interview techniques. The centre also helps
immigrants find housing, choose schools for their children, offers advice
in the use of health and social services, as well as mortgages and financial
matters. Even non-resident immigrants are free to use the centre's
resources.
IS THIS WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING ?
Have a good day.....................
Steve
Subject: Chinese racists
Here is an actual case of two different types of Chinese
immigrants, one of whom is a true Australian (and a PHON supporter),the other
a racist. Unfortunately I have been asked not to give too many details in
case there are repercussions from certain intimidating members of the Chinese
community against the PHON supporter.
An Australian of Chinese race was helping a local One
Nation candidate in the electoral campaign. This person had immigrated many
years ago and has embraced the Australian culture.
Unfortunatly this PHON supporter received a phone call
from a local Chinese friend who insisted that PHON was bad and that they
should keep away from the PHON candidate. The PHON supporter refused, saying
that they were Australian and they wanted what was good for Australia.
This friend then reminded the PHON supporter that they
were of Chinese race, that they should be Chinese first and that they were
born Chinese and they will die Chinese.
This anti-PHON Chinese person is sadly representative
of many Chinese. In Sang-Ye's book "The Year the Dragon Came" ( which
is about Chinese immigrants to Australia that he interviewed) it states
that:
"China is a country with a strong xenophobic,
isolationist tradition; a place where deeply racist sentiments are not
uncommon...Nearly all of the interviewees here referred to Australians as
'devils' (guizi) or foreign devils (yang guizi) or the slightly more polite
'foreigners'
(laowai or waiguoren), apparantly oblivious to the
fact that in Australia, it's they who are the foreigners."
Somehow I think that Racewatch and the gestapo enforcing
the Racial Discrimination Act and Racial Hatred Act would turn a blind eye
to Chinese racists, all in the name of Multiculturalism and Political
correctness. Naturally they also turn a blind eye to PHON's welcome to immigrants
like the PHON supporter above who is a true Australian.
Hypocricy at it's best.
Peter W
Subject: School Bags & Red Flags
We should not be surprised when we see kids of this
tender age out on the street protesting about anything and everything. A
schoolteacher friend showed me what seemed to be a curriculum manual in what
passes for Social Studies today. The kids are to form study and discussion
groups and examine contemporary events using criteria such as (a) reconciliation
(b) diversity (c) multiculturalism. Nowhere was there any examination of
these criteria. They were to be taken as "gospel".
Mark Nader
Subject:
Ockham
etc
Sorry this should have got posted yesterday in answer
to Michael's post of 28th. Due to storms last night my ISP went down for
a while. I'll try again.
Michael, G'day, good of you to introduce yourself.
Hmm .. your name seems familiar somehow! Anyway according to my dictionary
Ockham is the norm and Occam is the variant. Certainly the present day Ockham
in Surrey England (where Will was born, and where as I said before I once
lived {at Bridgend House}) is spelt with the kh not the c.
Anyway I daresay his razor maxim has it's uses but
sometimes it's neccessary to debunk even a good idea for fear of the damage
that could be done should the idea fall into the hands of idiots!
On the Protocols I dont see the difference between
the Dev- and Mr C, and regarding our discussion being meaningless here, I
can't agree with you. Now you have given your name you may even be taken
seriously!
It is not possible to know the Protocols, be familiar
with World events and yet deny the reality of the plot, as you now appear
to concede. However I am interested in hearing anything else you have to
say on the subject, as I'm sure are others since this is something that has
generated quite a bit of interest here allready.
What do others think of the "Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion" ?
Cheers.
David M.
Subject: Ockham or Occam
Michael, G'day, good of you to introduce yourself.
Hmm .. your name seems familiar somehow! Anyway according to my dictionary
Ockham is the norm and Occam is the variant. Certainly the present day Ockham
in Surrey England (where Will was born, and where as I said before I once
lived {at Bridgend House}) is spelt with the kh not the cc.
Anyway I daresay his razor maxim has it's uses but
sometimes it's neccessary to debunk even a good idea for fear of the damage
that could be done should the idea fall into the hands of idiots!
On the Protocols I dont see the difference between
the Dev- and Mr C, and regarding our discussion being meaningless here, I
can't agree with you. Now you have given your name you may even be taken
seriously!
It is not possible to know the Protocols, be familiar
with World events and yet deny the reality of the plot, as you now appear
to concede. However I am interested in hearing anything else you have to
say on the subject as I'm sure are others since this is something that has
generated quite a bit of interest here allready.
What do others think of the "Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion" ?
Cheers.
David M.
Subject: GST a loser (From Steve Blizard)
GST an election loser, but not tax reform, says
poll
The federal Coalition would lose an election fought
over a GST but would have a better chance if the battleground was tax reform,
a major pollster said on Saturday.
Gary Morgan said polling last weekend showed that the
ALP would receive 43 per cent of votes, the Liberal/National Party 35.5 per
cent and One Nation 11 per cent.
I think the thing that should be concerning the Liberal/National Party is
that it’s so far behind on its first preference.
— GARY MORGAN Pollster
That meant the ALP would probably win the election
or there would be a hung parliament, Morgan said.
The wild card in the election would be the One Nation
Party.
Morgan polls showed One Nation would receive a lot
more of the vote than “most people believed”, he said. However,
on a two-party preferred basis the voters split 45.5 per cent for the coalition
to Labor’s 54.5 per cent, which was the same as the previous
weekend.
“I think the thing that should be concerning the
Liberal/National Party is that it’s so far behind on its first
preference,” Morgan told ABC Radio.
“If the election were held on a GST, then the
Liberal/National Party would get beaten.
“If the election were held on tax reform, I think
the Liberal/National party would have a much better chance of either winning
or being in a position where the ALP doesn’t win in their own right.”
One Nation preferences had been dividing roughly 50/50 to the major parties
since the start of polling on preferences in July.
In the latest poll, 50.5 per cent went to the
Liberal/National Party and 49.5 per cent to the ALP, he said. The poll was
conducted before the release of the ALP’s tax package this week. —
AAP
Subject: Good luck!
I may not agree with all your tenets, but at least
you are shaking up the old fat that has been in too long. Good luck!!
Carl T. Erickson
Subject: State Debt Recovery Office
The Hon.
Shadow Minister for Finance,
Parliament House,
SYDNEY NSW
Dear Propspective Minister,
Given that it was not a government headed by your Party
which created the monster - although your hierarchy may have overlooked the
true nature of the organization being formed - our Principals ask whether
it is your intention, upon regaining the Treasury Benches, to review the
operations of the SDRO?
What do your advisers believe to be the main requirements
for an applicant, to SDRO for time to pay (payment by small but frequent
instalments), to succeed?
Our Principals understand that it is essential to the
proper management of the "public purse" that debts such as fines be collected
but it is not considered a prerequisite that the citizenry should be subjected
to impossible conditions.
Perhaps there may be a problem of understaffing or
poor skilling of operatives or under-resourcing that could explain the following
items:
(1) Unconsionable delays in reaching the SDRO's office
by telephone
(2) Inability of SDRO staff to provide prompt answers
(3) Inexplicable delays in replying to correspondence sent to SDRO by mail,
facsimile (or e-mail?)
Although it may not be quite as bad as this - we have
been given to understand that a growing number of electors have gained the
distinct impression, from their or their friends' contact with the SDRO,
that to succeed with such an application to SDRO they should not live in
a house; should not have any furniture; should sleep without bedclothes of
any kind; should always be healthy including having perfect teeth and no
need to take any medication; should be fiercely sight-impaired; should wear
their hair long; should be not just barefooted but totally naked; should
have no spirituality; should desert their children; and should never work
or seek any.
Obviously you have access to the relevant source of
accurate information on this subject so our Principals look forward to your
early and comprehensive reply, for which they instruct us to thank you in
anticipation.
Sincerely,
J o n M. A x t e n s
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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